David s



D. s. KENNEDY.

(No Model.)

HORSE OLEANER.

Patented June 29, 1897..

Nrrnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

DAVID S. KENNEDY, OF HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- TI'IIRDS TO TI'IE IIOMESTEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED, OF

SAME PLACE.

HORSE-CLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,526, dated June 29, 1897.

Application filed Merch 3l, 1897. Serial No. 630,074. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID S. KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at I-Iomestead, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Horse-Cleaners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The use of currycombs of the ordinary metallic type is attended with more or less discomfort and even positive injury to animals, and hence substitutes for or modifications of it have been proposed with a view to a more gentle and yet equally effective cleansing operation. 'Ihe filth adhering'to animals usually curried is largely superficial, and hence with that removed the usual brush will take away whatever dirt may be among the hair and on the skin. An eiiicientsurface-cleaner, therefore, with the usual brush will suffice to clean animals under ordinary circumstances.

The object of my invention is to provide a harmless and yet efficient substitute for the currycomb 5 and to this end the invention consists of a hand implement made of compound rubber fabric, or rubber or like material, having two separated active edges converging at their ends and made integral with a grip, which may be used as is a currycomb.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a side eleva tion, and Fig. 3 is a central cross-section.

One convenient way of making my cleaner is to split open a section of compound rubber fabric hose and turn it wrong side out and then rivet together its ends, so that the edges will naturally stand apart.

As illustrated, a is the piece of material, having the outside layers b c of rubber and intermediate alternate layers or plies d e of rubber and woven fabric. This piece is doubled upon itself and its ends fastened together, as'by rivets f, thus leaving the intermediate edges g h standing apart.

t' is the grip or handle.

I prefer to bevelV the edges g h in order that 1 The double edge admits of a back-and-forth rubbing action, as well as a single-direction stroke.

In addition to its functions already described I would note that my horsecleaner is a valuable acquisitionto horse-trainers and others for scraping perspiration from horses after violent exercise.

What I claim isl. A horse-cleaner or substitute for currycombs, composed of a piece of flexible material bent or doubled upon itself, having divergent active edges, and an integral grip, substantially as described.

2. A horse-cleaner, composed of iiexible material, doubled upon itself, with its ends united, and having its active edges beveled, substantially as described.

3. A horse-cleaner, composed of a piece of compound rubber fabric, doubled upon itself, and fastened together at its lower corners, with its active edges divergent, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of March, A. D. 1897.

DAVID S. KENNEDY.

lVitnesses:

GEO. W. GiLEs, FREDERICK SCHUCHMAN. 

